流行性腹泻是由多种病因引起的急性肠道传染病,在世界各国均有流行,我国也曾发生多次流行,故称之为流行性腹泻,也有人称之为急性胃肠炎或称秋季腹泻。近年来病原学研究有较大进展,并且证明,Coxsackie病毒,ECHO病毒等肠道病毒可以引起流行性腹泻外,呼肠病毒(Reovirus)是主要病原。呼肠病毒是Ramos-Alvarez和Sabin(1954年)从健康儿童的粪便中分离出来的,曾归类为ECHO病毒10型,后来发现它的许 Epidemic diarrhea is caused by a variety of causes of acute intestinal infectious diseases, are popular in all countries in the world, China has also had multiple epidemic, it is called epidemic diarrhea, some people call it acute gastroenteritis or autumn diarrhea. In recent years, great progress has been made in etiological research, and it has been proved that Reovirus is the major causative agent of enteric viruses such as Coxsackie virus and ECHO virus, which cause epidemic diarrhea. The reovirus was isolated from the stools of healthy children by Ramos-Alvarez and Sabin (1954) and was classified as ECHO-10 and was later found to